Activity Browser

The Activity Browser (AB) is an open source software for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) that builds on Brightway2.

Some highlights

• Fast LCA calculations: for multiple reference flows, impact categories, and scenarios
• A productivity tool for brightway: model in brightway (python) and see the results in the AB or vice-versa
• Advanced modeling: Use parameters, scenarios (including prospective LCI databases from premise), uncertainties and our Graph Explorer
• Advanced analyses: Contribution analyses, Sankey Diagrams, Monte Carlo, and Global Sensitivity Analysis
• Plugins: Extend the functionality of Activity Browser with Plugins

Contents

• Installation
• First Steps
• Contributing
• Developers
• Copyright
• License

Installation

Step-by-step guide

See our Installation Guide wiki page for a step-by-step guide to installing Activity Browser.

The quick way

Or you can install and start the activity-browser like this:

conda create -n ab -c conda-forge activity-browser
conda activate ab
activity-browser

First Steps

See our Getting Started wiki page to learn how to get started using Activity Browser.

Contributing

The Activity Browser is a community project. Your contribution counts!

If you have ideas for improvements to the code or documentation or want to propose new features, please take a look at our contributing guidelines and open issues and/or pull-requests.

If you experience problems or are suffering from a specific bug, please raise an issue here on github.

Developers

Current main developers

• Bernhard Steubing (b.steubing@cml.leidenuniv.nl) (creator)
• Marin Visscher (m.r.visscher@cml.leidenuniv.nl) (main developer)
• Marc van der Meide (m.t.van.der.meide@cml.leidenuniv.nl) (maintainer)

Important contributors

• Adrian Haas
• Chris Mutel
• Daniel de Koning
• Jonathan Kidner
• Remy le Calloch

Copyright

• 2016-2023: Bernhard Steubing (Leiden University)

License

You can find the license information for Activity Browser in the license file.